IBM Watson Health CMO Jain looks to 'cognitive computing' (listen)

Dr. Anil Jain Here at MedCity News, we celebrated the first birthday of IBM Watson Health a little early, during our HIMSS16 preview in late February. In reality, the anniversary is coming up in just a few days, since IBM introduced Watson Health just about a year ago, on April 13, 2015, at the start of HIMSS15. IBM has put about $4 billion into Watson Health in the last year. The biggest chunk of that sum was the $2.6 billion allocated in February to acquire Truven Health Analytics. With that in mind, Dr. Anil Jain, vice president and CMO of Watson Health, spoke at length to MedCity News last week, and we have it here as a 25-minute podcast. IBM’s Watson supercomputer often is seen as artificial intelligence, but Jain…